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How To: Installing a 2.3 Aerio Engine Into A Sidekick Sport By: Matt Verley, Photography: Matt Verley Seaside, OR – Over the last 20 years, I have owned at least a dozen Samurais, several Sidekicks and Trackers, and a couple of Vitara and Grand Vitara. About 3 years ago, I stumbled across a 1996 Sidekick Sport with a blown engine in my …

How-To: Suzuki Samurai mini-spool installation Canon Beach, OR – Story/Photos: Matt Verley I’ve seen the “how hard is it to install a locker in my samurai?” about a dozen times in one way or another; and I didn’t see a comprehensive set of instructions with pics. So, since I put the spool in the back of a Samurai this evening, AND …

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Whipsaw Weekend 2018 - Ride the Whipsaw trail outside of Princeton British Columbia, Canada, The first Canadian trail recognized as one of BFGoodrich's Outstanding Trails. Follow a historic Hudson's Bay Company trade route. Rescheduled for the week of July, 2018 more info to come

Milkshake 250 - ABG style rally in Central Oregon for Suzuki owners Head to our Forum more info to come

Jarbidge Nevada - One of the most interesting places we found along our Next One Over series of adventures.
Let's go back there and see all that's there there.
Forum for more info to come

Think I’ve got the transmission problem fixed but not for sure won’t know till I can drive it cant can’t get these damn breaks to bleed and it’s very irritating went and bought a vacuum bleeder yesterday and still nothing calipers are aren’t frozen up pretty sure wheel cylinders aren’t either i don’t see any leaks and on the leak down test it hold pretty solid it has proportioning valves but I don’t see bleeders on them or close to them the lines are weird it has bleeders on the DR PF and DF so I’m starting at DR then it’ll be PF DF these are vacuum assist manual breaks should I drain the whole system and blow out the lines and start fresh any thought and help would be greatly appreciated.......... it’s on jack stands now so while it’s apart I’m going to go ahead and put my lift on it ...